Filler for eggs and the like



Sept. 5, 1933. J. 1.. COYLE FILLER FOR EGGS AND THE LIKE Filed Jan. so. 1931 Patented Sept. 5, 1933 UNITED STATES 1,925,792 FILLER FOR EGGS AND. THE LIKE Joseph L. Coyle, London, Ontario, Canada, as-

signor to Leon Ben0it,'Chicago, 111.

Application January .30, 1931, Serial No. 512,245. and in Canada March 26, 1930 2 Claims.

The present invention is concerned with a filler for eggs or other desired commodities. bodies in its construction certain improvements having to do with simplicity, low cost of pro- 5 duction, facility in nesting, ease of assembling.

and secure protection tothe articles contained. within its several cells.

A suggestive embodiment of this invention is set forth in the accompanying drawing wherein Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of the filler blank as it appears ready for nesting, shipping, storing, or assembling with a second component;

Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section therethrough;

Fig. 3 shows in perspective the partition strip designed for assembly with the filler blank;

Fig. 4 illustrates in perspective a number of filler blanks nested together;

Fig. 5 which is a perspective view shows a filler blank and partition in the relationship occupied at the commencement of the assembling operation;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the filler fully assembled;

Fig. 7 is a transverse section through the filler on line '7 of Fig. 6;

Fig. 8 shows in perspective the filler placed within an enclosing carton; and

Fig. 9 illustrates in perspective a filler having a slightly modifiedconstruction. V In the construction of the present filler, I may utilize two componentsan elongated blank X anda partition strip Y. For a 2x6 filler the blank is produced with a plurality of transverse bends defining walls A to K which provide a series of alternately facing flaring channels. The channel bottom walls A, E and I lie in one plane with other bottom walls 0, G and K disposed in another plane, and between these two planes the walls B, F and J extend slantingly in parallel relation, the remaining walls D and H being slanted in another direction.

The blank is severed centrally through all the walls except the bottoms C, G and K, which lie in one plane to form webs w by which to connect the two sections of the blank lying on op posite sides of a plane extending centrallyof its length. A blank having these characteristics may be nested with others, as shown in Fig. 4, so that a large number will occupy but a very small space. With each such blank I may associate a partition strip Y, which, as shown in Fig. 3, is of plain rectangularform.

The operation of assembling the strips and blanks may be performed expeditiously in some It emsuch manner as is suggested in Fig. -5. Here I have shown a plurality of nested blanks X, upon the top one of which may be placed a partition strip Y with one longitudinal edge rested close to a line running centrally of the length of the blank. The opposite side edges of the blank may then be seized by the fingers to perform a folding operation in which the connecting webs w of the sections C, G and K serve as hinges.

With the two sections of the blank folded into adjacent relation, a partition strip may be confined therebetween in the manner shown in Figs.

6 and 7. The structure resulting from this operation is one which provides a series of alternately facing channels or pockets on opposite sides of the central partition strip. The filler when so assembled need not be secured in any way, inasmuch as the confinement afforded by an enclosing carton or wrapper Z, as shown in Fig. 8, is sufiicient to maintain the filler parts in the position shown. It will be noted by reference to Fig. 8 that the several channels or pockets defined by the blank sections provide parallel rows of cells lying on opposite sides of the central partition strip. Within these cells may be placed 30 any desired commodities, such as eggs or the like. When so received, the surrounding walls of the cells provided by the filler and carton or wrapper, will afford the desired protection to the contents. As shown, the carton may be equipped with the usual cover 10 having locking tongues 11 for co-operation with slits 12 along one carton edge by which to secure the cover in closed position. I

In case the present filler be used with a carton having outwardly slanted sides and ends, it is desirable that the filler walls and edges contacting therewith should be similarly inclined. To meet this condition, I have shown in Fig. 9 a construction in which diverging slits 15 extend partly across each blank section to provide intervening tongues 16 which can be inwardly slanted in conformity with the inclination of the car ton walls adjacent which such tongues will lie. The end edges of the blank, and of the partition also, may be inclined as at 17, for the same purpose.

The filler herein described is advantageous in that it may consist of two components, both of which may be nested or stacked to occupy a minimum of'space. In the assembling of the filler, a partition taken from one stack may be laid on the uppermost blank in the other stack, and by the operation of one hand the blank sections are folded up to enclose the partition in a central 110 position preliminary to introducing the assembled filler in a carton.

I claim:

1. A collapsible filler formed from an elongated blank having a series of bends providing a plurality of inner Walls lying in one plane, a plurality of outer walls lying in another plane parallel thereto, and a plurality of intermediate walls extending between the two planes, said intermediate walls being angularly slitted adjacent said outer walls, whereby portions of said outer walls may be inclined relative to said other walls, there being a central cut extending longitudinally of the blank through allthe walls in the two planes last noted, permitting the two sections of the blank on opposite sides of the center to be folded upon itself with the continuous walls in the plane first noted providing hinges therefor and a partition strip extending between the two folded sections of the blank and confined in place therebetween.

2. A collapsible filler comprising a sheet of material slitted at intervals between the longitudinal edges thereof and bent transversely of the sheet at the slitted portions to provide coinplernentary oppositely bowed portions when folded between the slits, and a longitudinal partition resting upon and laterally supported at intervals by said folded unslitted portions of the sheet and dividing said intermediate oppositely bowed portions into cells of substantially uniform dimen sions.

JOSEPH L. COYLE. 

